Seriously? You just have to google to figure out why people skitter away from writing Anne Rice fanfiction-- she'll bring out the lawyers. In a larger sense, though, a fanfiction writer loves the fiction he or she is using as a jumping off point, and loves the author of the original fiction for creating it. If someone you loved told you to fuck off, what would you do: say fuck you too, and go find someone else, or say nahnahnah you don't love me but I'm going to do this because it annoys the crap out of you? Fanfic writers don't exist in a vacuum that denies the existence of the original author, and it's not that hard to jump ship and switch fandoms. If JK Rowling hated fanfic, I as a writer would've gone somewhere that the author would at least pretend we didn't exist.
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Seriously? You just have to google to figure out why people skitter away from writing Anne Rice fanfiction-- she'll bring out the lawyers. In a larger sense, though, a fanfiction writer loves the fiction he or she is using as a jumping off point, and loves the author of the original fiction for creating it. If someone you loved told you to fuck off, what would you do: say fuck you too, and go find someone else, or say nahnahnah you don't love me but I'm going to do this because it annoys the crap out of you? Fanfic writers don't exist in a vacuum that denies the existence of the original author, and it's not that hard to jump ship and switch fandoms. If JK Rowling hated fanfic, I as a writer would've gone somewhere that the author would at least pretend we didn't exist.
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